If Erwin feels this way WHY did he push so hard to sell Crestliner and Lund to Brunswick?

I guided for Elk for over 10 years. The advice that I would give is to choose something in 30 cal. or larger that you can handel the recoil from and still be very accurate with. Elk have an extreamly thick hide and very heavy bone. You can kill an elk with a .243 IF you have JUST THE RIGHT ANGLE but with a heavy (200 Grains or larger) you are not limited to just broadside and only rib cage. If you can shoot a 338 well and handel the recoil from it that would be my choice. You can shoot at a pretty good angle with that cal. from 200 yards and still get a one shoot kill.

I guided for Elk for over 10 years. The advice that I would give is to choose something in 30 cal. or larger that you can handel the recoil from and still be very accurate with. Elk have an extreamly thick hide and very heavy bone. You can kill an elk with a .243 IF you have JUST THE RIGHT ANGLE but with a heavy (200 Grains or larger) you are not limited to just broadside and only rib cage. If you can shoot a 338 well and handel the recoil from it that would be my choice. You can shoot at a pretty good angle with that cal. from 200 yards and still get a one shoot kill.

I am interested in going. I just moved from just west of Minneapolis to St Louis. I will be here for 4 or 5 months and then be moving somewhere in southern Missouri. Please keep me posted on the details.
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Tom Kunz (elkmantom)

I am interested in going. I just moved from just west of Minneapolis to St Louis. I will be here for 4 or 5 months and then be moving somewhere in southern Missouri. Please keep me posted on the details.
Thanks
Tom Kunz (elkmantom)

I lived just outside of
St Charles MN and saw a number of bears in that area. In 1996 there were 5 different farmers who claimed to see bears that fall and no one would believe them until a 280# bear was hit by a semi on I90 just outside of Eyota. I have seen bears as far west as Pine Island and back to 1990. I think that they either come across the river from Wisconsin or come down from up north. As elusive as bears are they can move around alot with out been seen by anyone.

I lived just outside of
St Charles MN and saw a number of bears in that area. In 1996 there were 5 different farmers who claimed to see bears that fall and no one would believe them until a 280# bear was hit by a semi on I90 just outside of Eyota. I have seen bears as far west as Pine Island and back to 1990. I think that they either come across the river from Wisconsin or come down from up north. As elusive as bears are they can move around alot with out been seen by anyone.

I have been using smoke poles for the last twenty years. Bore butter is a fantastic produce when combined with tripple 7 or clean shot. You can hunt all season without doing anything to your barrel except keeping dirt and water out of it. I recommend that you boil out your barrel to get oil out of it first. Just boil some water with a little bar soap and stick the end of yhour barrel in it. Use a tight patch and draw the water up though the barrel. This will clean any oil out and also get the barrel hot enough that water will evaporate. Then while it is warm run a few patches with bore butter on them though the barrel. I agree that with a new gun it will take a few roulds before you will have real tight groups. after twenty to thirty rounds the rifeling should have the edges off so you will get good concistancy. Hope this helps. The bore butter will not allow powder residue to swtick to the metal in your barrel.

I have been using smoke poles for the last twenty years. Bore butter is a fantastic produce when combined with tripple 7 or clean shot. You can hunt all season without doing anything to your barrel except keeping dirt and water out of it. I recommend that you boil out your barrel to get oil out of it first. Just boil some water with a little bar soap and stick the end of yhour barrel in it. Use a tight patch and draw the water up though the barrel. This will clean any oil out and also get the barrel hot enough that water will evaporate. Then while it is warm run a few patches with bore butter on them though the barrel. I agree that with a new gun it will take a few roulds before you will have real tight groups. after twenty to thirty rounds the rifeling should have the edges off so you will get good concistancy. Hope this helps. The bore butter will not allow powder residue to swtick to the metal in your barrel.

If you are going to shoot factory ammo the velocity is only around 100 ft per sec faster than a regular 243. It is much more expensive for ammo than a reg. 243. As far as I know the Browning is the only one that has not has barrel burn-out so far. The presure is too high and barrels have not been lasting. That would be a deffinite concern in my choice.

If you are going to shoot factory ammo the velocity is only around 100 ft per sec faster than a regular 243. It is much more expensive for ammo than a reg. 243. As far as I know the Browning is the only one that has not has barrel burn-out so far. The presure is too high and barrels have not been lasting. That would be a deffinite concern in my choice.

It really doesn’t matter where they were from….they are not there anymore!

It really doesn’t matter where they were from….they are not there anymore!

Here are my thoughts for what they are worth.

There is nothing wrong with party hunting. The goal is to harvest deer. I have shot 15 bucks that are on my wall, one is 192 inches as a 5X5. The ONLY way to have quality bucks is to get MOST hunters educated and practicing quality deer management. Point restrictions just don’t work. Colorado proved that with elk. All it does is delay those bucks that don’t have great genetics/nutrition one more year before they are shot. I think everyone will agree that for quality deer they mean 4 years old or older and point restrictions won’t acheive that. It all has to start with a commitment to not harvest immature bucks. It has to start with each one of us. If a deer is a trophy to you it is OK to harvest it. That would include kids and elderly shooting smaller deer. The majority of the deer taken would still be mature if that happened. I don’t think it is our states responsibility to dictate to us what is a trophy in EVERYONE’S mind. They have a responsibility to manage for numbers of huntable deer.

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Here are my thoughts for what they are worth.

There is nothing wrong with party hunting. The goal is to harvest deer. I have shot 15 bucks that are on my wall, one is 192 inches as a 5X5. The ONLY way to have quality bucks is to get MOST hunters educated and practicing quality deer management. Point restrictions just don’t work. Colorado proved that with elk. All it does is delay those bucks that don’t have great genetics/nutrition one more year before they are shot. I think everyone will agree that for quality deer they mean 4 years old or older and point restrictions won’t acheive that. It all has to start with a commitment to not harvest immature bucks. It has to start with each one of us. If a deer is a trophy to you it is OK to harvest it. That would include kids and elderly shooting smaller deer. The majority of the deer taken would still be mature if that happened. I don’t think it is our states responsibility to dictate to us what is a trophy in EVERYONE’S mind. They have a responsibility to manage for numbers of huntable deer.

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I have one of these and it has been a great gun for fox and coyote. I have not had to shoot one past 80-90 yards but I have taken a few through the shoulders and it has put them right down. It also puts a very small hole in the hide with no exit when the shoulders are hit. It will fragment very quickly if ANY brush is hit, so make sure you have a open shot.

I have one of these and it has been a great gun for fox and coyote. I have not had to shoot one past 80-90 yards but I have taken a few through the shoulders and it has put them right down. It also puts a very small hole in the hide with no exit when the shoulders are hit. It will fragment very quickly if ANY brush is hit, so make sure you have a open shot.

Most of the Muzzleloaders on the market today have Green Mountain barrels. They are good barrels. The big difference is in the trigger and actions. If you get one with a 209 primer it will ignight great. If you can shot well with a very stiff trigger any one that fits you will work well. So0me of them you can get an aftermarket trigger and change the trigger out in the gun and there won’t be a great difference from one to the other. The other thing to concider is the sights. Hope that this will help!

Most of the Muzzleloaders on the market today have Green Mountain barrels. They are good barrels. The big difference is in the trigger and actions. If you get one with a 209 primer it will ignight great. If you can shot well with a very stiff trigger any one that fits you will work well. So0me of them you can get an aftermarket trigger and change the trigger out in the gun and there won’t be a great difference from one to the other. The other thing to concider is the sights. Hope that this will help!

What are you looking for as far as price?
I am very interested.

What are you looking for as far as price?
I am very interested.

The frirst thing I would do is paper test your bow and make sure it is properly tuned. If it is then adjust your sights for the braodhead you want to shoot. I also would use that broadhead to practice with. Bows, just like guns, don’t always shoot different tips in exactly the same spot. If your bow is tuned properly don’t worry about it.

The frirst thing I would do is paper test your bow and make sure it is properly tuned. If it is then adjust your sights for the braodhead you want to shoot. I also would use that broadhead to practice with. Bows, just like guns, don’t always shoot different tips in exactly the same spot. If your bow is tuned properly don’t worry about it.

To keep suckers alive……take a good size cooler and put a hole with a screen in the top. Then buy a live well pump and place it in the bottom of the cooler. run a piece of hose from the pump along the top part of the cooler and plug the end of the hose. Drill 1/4 inch holes along the bottom side of the hose. Hook the live well pump to a deep cycle battery and it will run all night long. I also make ice cubes with lake or river water and add some of these during the night to keep the water cool. Try this and you will be able to keep just about any knid of bait alive all night long.

You will probably have to raise your limit on price. You will be around $10,000 with a 16″ boat with a 25HP. You can gewt some good deals on packages with everything you need for the $2,500 to $15,000 range depending on the brand. I know that Crystal Pierz Marine has Crestliners with 40 HP strokes and great fishing p[ackages for that price range.

My first date with my now wife Lisa.
I took her catfishing on the Zumbro river. We had to go about 4 miles in a boat. I had an old 73 crestliner closed bow with a 1965 40 hp evenrude. Just when we got to our spot
I hit something with the motor and lost the entire lower unit. It was almost dark and I had no paddle so I got in the front of the boat and had to throw the anchor as far as I could and pull the boat forward. I did that for about two hours to get back to the landing. I told her as long as we were there we might as well fish off shore. It was the middle of April and windy (about 45 deg.). I got a blanket and a lawn chair for her to stay comfortable. About 11:30 sh got a bite and she had her rod infront of her resting against a stick. As she steped forward to reach her rod she got her feet tangled in the blanket and went head first into the water. She came up spitting river water and looked at me and said “can you take me home now?”. I looked back and said “Well we only need one more fish for our limit. It probably won’t take too long to catch it. We will go after that.” We got married about 18 months later and yes she is still with me and loves to fish catfish.

Crystal Pierz Marine has urgent care and will look at it right away, however urgent care doesn’t mean they can fix it right away. If it is something simple they will do it right away. If they need parts that they don’t have they will fix it as soon as the parts come in. The cost is not at any different rate. They do have a $50. minimum charge but that is not in addition to the total. It just means if they do something the least it will cost is $50.00.

You can not have a rifle in possestion during an open deer season for fire arms that is only open for shotgun with or with out a valid deer lic. If you are in a rifle zone you must have a valid deer lic to have a rifle in posetion (other than at a autyhorized rifle range or encased properly for transport). Other times you can use any fire arm to harvest coyotes and you can hunt them any time without the aid of a light. You can also use electronic calls for coyote. The electronic calls work very well on coyotes that have not been called before. A locator call works good to locate them and then I recomend canine pups tape. They have excellent smelling and they can see very well at night so use very good camo and remember the wind. You can use a lighted rectical in a scope also.

I would suggest 4 lb or 6 lb fireline. It will get you down fast with shad raps or wally divers and you can accually feel the fish when you get one.

Thanks for the note Jim. That was me. I didn’t do any good where you saw me. Most of my action was lower on the lake. I will be out there again tuesday. I’ve been selling Crestliners and Glasstron for Crystal Pierz Marine 3 days a week and will continue that for most of the summer. I should be on the water most of the rest of the time.

See ya there.

Tom